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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 49: (search)
ed the resurrection and return of him whose very tomb had been prepared. It was the sense of humiliation that had stricken him and had more to do with his prostration than disease; and when this was removed, he rose from the embrace of the King of Terrors, and flung himself for a while into new toils and battles, and, though wounded and bleeding, refused to die. On the 16th of June he was removed to Mount McGregor, near Saratoga, where a cottage had been offered him by its owner, Mr. Joseph W. Drexel. His strength had so far lapsed that the physicians afterward declared he could not have lived a week longer in the heats and sultriness of New York. When the fatigues of the journey were over, however, and there was time for the fresh and reviving air of his new situation to affect him, his spirits rallied, and he resumed his literary labor with extraordinary energy for a man in his condition. I was not with him at Mount McGregor, but I know that his effort there must have been
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
t about the first of Decr I will go to Spain and if he can have a vessel at Lisbon I will join him at that port about ten days later. If preferable to meet me at some Mediterranean port I would be glad to have the comdr inform me, to the care of Drexel, Hargous & Co., Paris. As the time approaches I am anxious to get off to the Continent, though I have no idea that I shall enjoy my visit there half so much as in England. With kind regards of myself and family, I am Truly Yours, U. S. Gate for me to ask him. He goes with me in the morning however and I will ask him then. I believe this answers all your questions in your last letters. For the next fifteen days my address will be Nice, France. After that anything directed to Drexel, Paris will reach me. But it is likely you will have my directions. I told you in a former letter that I had written to Sherman as I stated I would. I also wrote to Porter, but nothing affecting your status in your present position. Porter r